Leonid Pushkin

Leonid Pushkin (born 5 May 1944) was a general of the former Soviet Union who was head of the KGB from 1987 to 1991, succeeding Alexis Gogol.

Biography
Pushkin became the director of the Committee of State Safety (KGB) in 1987 after Alexis Gogol, former director of the KGB, retired to become a post-Glasnost diplomat. Pushkin was responsible for teaming up with MI6 to bring down renegade Soviet general Georgi Koskov in 1987, arresting him due to embezzlement of government money and other plots. He remained KGB director until the organization's end in 1991.